London Java Community
A group of professional Java Developers who meet regularly for presentations on the latest technologies and movements within the Java world.
Curated by Barry Cranford
May 19, 2012
What Do You Do and How Did You Get There?
Trisha's Ramblings
So yet another interview with me is available, but this one is in written form. It's for the Graduate Developer Community, the aim is to show undergraduates and graduates what real techies jobs are like, and how people doing them they got there More...
May 18, 2012
Testing multiple properties with single assertion
Crafted Software
Every time I was trying to test an object's properties I was neither satisfied writing very verbose tests nor in using some of the out of the box hamcrest matchers. Although using the matchers was a big help, I never managed to make them read the way More...
May 18, 2012
Interviewed for InfoQ at QCon London
Trisha's Ramblings
I was flattered to be interviewed for InfoQ at QCon London. It was a fun interview actually, and didn't feel anything like the half an hour it actually took. In it, I get to talk about Agile at LMAX, the Disruptor (of course) and diversit More...
May 18, 2012
New LJC Event: Gradle – Build Automation Evolved on Tuesday 12th June at 18:00
London Java Community Blog
The London Java Community’s next free event is – ‘Gradle – Build Automation Evolved’ on Tuesday 12th June at 18:00. Please see link for details and to sign up – http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/64272762/ Presented by More...
May 18, 2012
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GDC Careers
Trisha is a developer at LMAX, a financial exchange in London. She’s been working in financial markets the last 6 years or so, but a fear of boredom and healthy amount of job-hopping before then has given a wide breadth of experience, in a rang More...
May 17, 2012
Why Open Source Your Secrets
Trisha's Ramblings
Here's a video of my Open Conference session on the business benefits of open sourcing your software. Given that the conference was at a weekend and had a very intimate feel, I think I was a teeny bit more honest than I usually am. Enjoy. More...
May 16, 2012
JSR-310 Method Naming Survey Results
London Java Community Blog
As part of the London Java Communities efforts to help out in JSR-310 efforts, we have been working with Stephen Colebourne to gather the feedback of the community on method naming conventions that would potentially be used in the upcoming implementa More...
May 15, 2012
Sentiment Analysis using Apache Hive
Xebia Blog
Apache Hive is a data warehouse system built on top of Hadoop. Using SQL-like language you can query data stored in the Hadoop filesystem (HDFS). Those queries are then translated into Map Reduce jobs and executed on your cluster. As an example we More...
May 15, 2012
Sentiment Analysis using Apache Hive
Xebia Blog
Apache Hive is a data warehouse system built on top of Hadoop. Using SQL-like language you can query data stored in the Hadoop filesystem (HDFS). Those queries are then translated into Map Reduce jobs and executed on your cluster. As an example we More...
May 14, 2012
How to grow your own Silent Story Tree®
Xebia Blog
Lots of groups struggle with product features in the discovery phase of their products and services. Here is a relatively easy and quick exercise to make sense out of a mess of stories. Background: The Story Tree is loosely based on the KANO model, w More...
May 14, 2012
How to grow your own Silent Story Tree®
Xebia Blog
Lots of groups struggle with product features in the discovery phase of their products and services. Here is a relatively easy and quick exercise to make sense out of a mess of stories. Background: The Story Tree is loosely based on the KANO model, w More...
May 13, 2012
Disruptor 2.10 Release
Bad Concurrency
The Disruptor version 2.10 has been released. It is available from the Google Code download page and has been submitted to Maven central. Changes Remove deprecated timeout methods.Added OSGI metadata to jar file.Removed PaddedAtomicLong and use Sequ More...
May 12, 2012
Update on events
Trisha's Ramblings
Just a quick note to say I was interviewed for another podcast, again to talk about all-female events. It's only a short one and there's probably not much in there that I haven't said before, either on here or in person.From the 21st May, I'm a More...
May 12, 2012
Facts Not Opinions
Principles of Software Flow
The need for Experimentation As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are always looking for way to raise the bar for professional software development. Practicing the crafting of high quality code that keeps adding value is essential. Working together More...
May 10, 2012
Good luck Mike Barker
London Java Community Blog
Mike Barker, a stalwart of the LJC has withdrawn from the LJC Associates and the LJC JCP Committee to focus on his exciting new position at LMAX. We’d like to thank Mike for all of his amazing contributions! Mike has been working as an LJC Asso More...
May 9, 2012
May’s Packt Publishing Prize Draw – Java 7 Features
LJC Book Club
Do You Know Java Seven? This month we are offering just one book in the competition because every Java developer needs to read it, or one like it. The book is “Java 7 – New Features Cookbook” by the father and daughter team Richard More...
May 9, 2012
Why your team should do code reviews
Xebia Blog
The problem Your project has a nice test coverage, let’s say 85%. Your nightly build reports a wide range of metrics and they are all above your accepted levels. Your team consists of well-motivated people all willing to learn the latest frameworks More...
May 9, 2012
Why your team should do code reviews
Xebia Blog
The problem Your project has a nice test coverage, let’s say 85%. Your nightly build reports a wide range of metrics and they are all above your accepted levels. Your team consists of well-motivated people all willing to learn the latest frameworks More...
May 8, 2012
LJC Partner Events
London Java Community Blog
Hey guys, Every two weeks we have started to email a list of events for the next few weeks from some of our partner user groups. As always, feel free to give Barry or me a shout to add your groups/events to the list (bc@recworks.co.uk or ab@recworks. More...
May 8, 2012
Maven and AVG – a bad combination?
Andy's Blog
I’ve just had a very frustrating couple of days after buying a new laptop – it’s not the laptop you understand I was very happy with that but after checking out a couple of java projects I found that try … Continue reading More...
May 7, 2012
Agile changes the world
Xebia Blog
At Xebia, we like experimenting with new solutions that enable us to give a more satisfying answer to our customers. One of these questions is: are Agile and Scrum applicable to non-IT environments? And though we are known with project such as wikisp More...
May 7, 2012
Agile changes the world
Xebia Blog
At Xebia, we like experimenting with new solutions that enable us to give a more satisfying answer to our customers. One of these questions is: are Agile and Scrum applicable ... More...
May 6, 2012
Using OpenCV to avoid Shirt Guy Dom in Megatokyo
Dave Snowdon's Blog
I’m a great fan of Megatokyo but the publication rate of new comics can seem glacial at times. There have been times when I’ve checked the site hoping to see an update only to find that it’s a “Shirt guy … Continue readi More...
May 6, 2012
Developers should not believe the HTML5 hype
Armel Nenes Blog
As an Architect and Lead developer, I have to sit down with the non-techie and convince them why I think a technology or framework is the right one for a project and then I build my team to deliver the solution. The past two years or so, the marke More...
May 4, 2012
iOS – Just a quick way to create a shadow on any view
Xebia Blog
Sometimes you would want a shadow on a view. Easiest and quickest way is to just add it on the view’s layer: I must admit, this is kind of basic stuff. But it seems a lot of people actually forget about the fact that all UIView subclasses are b More...
